Box, Medicine
- Object Name:
- Box, Medicine
- Object ID:
- 1992.063.453
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- 1910-1930
- Description:
- Medicine in original box, Charles Pfizer Company, New York, NY. Square tin box with green exterior and removable cover. Printed paper label on front: "BISMUTH SUBGALLATE / U. S. P. / ONE QUARTER POUND / GUARANTEED UNDER THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, JUNE 30TH 1906. No. 1919 / CHAS. PFIZER CO. / Manufacturing Chemists / 81 MAIDEN LANE / NEW YORK". "CPCo" monogram on each side. Image of factory on back. Bottom is brass plated on exterior. Box contains yellow powder in blue paper, opened; about 3/4 full.
- Material:
- Metal
Tin - Dimensions:
- H-3.9 W-2.5 D-2.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Wilfred B. Osgood Pharmacy Collection, consisting of the 1870s-1950s contents of the Knox Pharmacy (owned by Fred L. Knox) and Roberts Rexall Store (owned by George C. Roberts) in Farmington, NH. Wilfred Osgood purchased both pharmacies in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and kept the original furnishings from both stores. During the 1970s, he created a pharmacy display room from the contents of both stores. This collection is the contents of that display. The collection also includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to NHHS library (1992-068).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood
- People:
- Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)
- Subjects:
- Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines, Chemicals
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